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It seems that culturally, it's kind of an accepted fact that Sgt. Pepper's is the best Beatles album ever, and the best Album ever. People will say things like "This is the best thing since Sgt. Pepper's!" or things like it, and I just don't get the fuss.

I'm a huge Beatles fan, and I like Sgt. Peppers, but I think that every album from Revolver onward (excluding Let it Be) is much better than Sgt. Pepper's. I realize that it's alot to do with personal opinion, but do people here really thing Sgt. Pepper's is so much better than the other Beatles Albums?

I'm a huge Beatles fan, and I like Sgt. Peppers, but I think that every album from Rubber Soul onward (excluding Let it Be) is much better than Sgt. Pepper's...

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Fixed it for you.

Pepper was groundbreaking because the production methods were as cutting edge as they could be at the time

Rubber Soul is where it's at for me - great songs without pretense and all very doable live. Not so much of that doubletracking and backward looping they got into later, even though that was brilliant too.

One more thing. I heard sometime that for the concept of Sgt. Pepper's... Paul McCartney was inspired by Beach Boys' "Pet sounds" album. I got to hear it and, although I could notice some common guidelines with Sgt. Pepper's. If you're a Sgt. Pepper's fan you should check out Pet Sounds, a rather non-typical album you would never expect from the Beach Boys.

It seems that culturally, it's kind of an accepted fact that Sgt. Pepper's is the best Beatles album ever, and the best Album ever. People will say things like "This is the best thing since Sgt. Pepper's!" or things like it, and I just don't get the fuss.

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As others have said - it's really about the time and context and it's impossible to take it out of that context.

So - it was the first time that certain recording techniques were used and the sound palette of pop music was expanded.

Also - it virtually invented the "concept album" in pop music - before, albums tended to be just like compilations of singles.

The idea here was that the album as whole meant something and was a unified piece of work - this was hugely influential and changed the focus from singles to albums - a massive step and it spawned legions of similar things!

Also - it was a question of how much it influenced other musicians around - so Jimi Hendrix famously pronounced it a work of genius and started playing the songs live - all sorts of stuff was around this album at the time.

It's more of an important album than one you'd want to listen to, a lot!!!

One more thing. I heard sometime that for the concept of Sgt. Pepper's... Paul McCartney was inspired by Beach Boys' "Pet sounds" album. I got to hear it and, although I could notice some common guidelines with Sgt. Pepper's. If you're a Sgt. Pepper's fan you should check out Pet Sounds, a rather non-typical album you would never expect from the Beach Boys.

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You wouldn't have Peppers without Pet Sounds.
You wouldn't have Pet Sounds without Revolver.

Revolver is where it's at.
The tape loops, the backwards guitars, the Indian/sitar influence, orchestral tunes, etc. all started with Revolver.
Definitely Avant-Pop...still!

I really like the "White Album", mainly because it's the only one I own, and because SOMEONE'S got to like it.

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Just be aware that The Beatles were really no longer 'a band' at the point The Beatles was written/recorded.
The tunes still say Lennon-McCartney...they were not writing together at that time, though. The amount of songs where all 4 are actually playing together is pretty minimal.
McCartney was doing pretty much everything on his tunes.

On of the best Beatles' tunes to never make an album was recorded during those sessions-
Harrison's "Not Guilty". Check it out on Anthology 3.